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| Single 3 date = 30 March 2010
| Single 3 date = 30 March 2010
| Single 4 = The Power of the Heart" / "Solsbury Hill
| Single 4 = The Power of the Heart" / "Solsbury Hill
| Single 4 date = 28 April 2010<ref>{{cite web |title=New on iTunes today |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/04/28/New_on_iTunes_today |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=28 April 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref>
| Single 4 date = 28 April 2010<ref>{{cite web|title=New on iTunes today |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/04/28/New_on_iTunes_today |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=28 April 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503055300/http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/04/28/New_on_iTunes_today |archivedate=3 May 2010 |df= }}</ref>
| Single 5 = Mirrorball" / "Mercy Street
| Single 5 = Mirrorball" / "Mercy Street
| Single 5 date = 27 May 2010<ref>{{cite web |title='Mirrorball' and 'Mercy Street' |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/05/27/Mirrorball_and_Mercy_Street |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=27 May 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref>
| Single 5 date = 27 May 2010<ref>{{cite web|title='Mirrorball' and 'Mercy Street' |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/05/27/Mirrorball_and_Mercy_Street |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=27 May 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531201502/http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/05/27/Mirrorball_and_Mercy_Street |archivedate=31 May 2010 |df= }}</ref>
| Single 6 = Listening Wind" / "I Don't Remember
| Single 6 = Listening Wind" / "I Don't Remember
| Single 6 date = 26 June 2010<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter's Full Moon update |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/05/27/Peter%27s_Full_Moon_update |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=27 May 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref>
| Single 6 date = 26 June 2010<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter's Full Moon update |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/05/27/Peter%27s_Full_Moon_update |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=27 May 2010 |accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref>
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==Singles==
==Singles==
Gabriel originally intended to release ''Scratch My Back'' and ''I'll Scratch Yours'' simultaneously.<ref name="nyt2010"/> However, as completion of the latter dragged out, it was instead decided to release a series of [[Double A-side#Double A-side|double A-sided singles]] with one song from each album every new full moon during 2010 on [[iTunes]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Neil |last=McCormick |title=Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back, CD review |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/neilmccormick/7212676/Peter-Gabriel-returns-every-full-moon.html |publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' |date=11 February 2010 |accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref> The first, "The Book of Love" – Gabriel's cover of a [[The Magnetic Fields|Magnetic Fields]] song, together with "Not One of Us" – [[Stephin Merritt]]'s (The Magnetic Fields' frontman) cover of a Peter Gabriel song, was released on 30 January 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magnetic Fields: Realism |url=http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/01/23/The_Magnetic_Fields:_Realism |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=23 January 2010 |accessdate=6 February 2010}}</ref> Gabriel's version of "The Boy in the Bubble" coupled with [[Paul Simon]]'s version of "[[Biko (song)|Biko]]" was the second, released on 28 February 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Boy in the Bubble and Biko on iTunes today |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/02/28/The_Boy_In_The_Bubble_and_Biko_on_iTunes_today |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=28 February 2010 |accessdate=18 April 2010}}</ref> The third in the series, Gabriel's take on "Flume" paired with Bon Iver's seven-minute long version of "Come Talk to Me" was released on 30 March 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title='Come Talk To Me' and 'Flume' released today on iTunes |url=http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/03/30/%27Come_Talk_To_Me%27_and_%27Flume%27_released_today_on_iTunes |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=30 March 2010 |accessdate=18 April 2010}}</ref>
Gabriel originally intended to release ''Scratch My Back'' and ''I'll Scratch Yours'' simultaneously.<ref name="nyt2010"/> However, as completion of the latter dragged out, it was instead decided to release a series of [[Double A-side#Double A-side|double A-sided singles]] with one song from each album every new full moon during 2010 on [[iTunes]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Neil |last=McCormick |title=Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back, CD review |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/neilmccormick/7212676/Peter-Gabriel-returns-every-full-moon.html |publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' |date=11 February 2010 |accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref> The first, "The Book of Love" – Gabriel's cover of a [[The Magnetic Fields|Magnetic Fields]] song, together with "Not One of Us" – [[Stephin Merritt]]'s (The Magnetic Fields' frontman) cover of a Peter Gabriel song, was released on 30 January 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magnetic Fields: Realism |url=http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/01/23/The_Magnetic_Fields:_Realism |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=23 January 2010 |accessdate=6 February 2010}}</ref> Gabriel's version of "The Boy in the Bubble" coupled with [[Paul Simon]]'s version of "[[Biko (song)|Biko]]" was the second, released on 28 February 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Boy in the Bubble and Biko on iTunes today |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/02/28/The_Boy_In_The_Bubble_and_Biko_on_iTunes_today |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=28 February 2010 |accessdate=18 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419164647/http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/02/28/The_Boy_In_The_Bubble_and_Biko_on_iTunes_today |archivedate=19 April 2010 |df= }}</ref> The third in the series, Gabriel's take on "Flume" paired with Bon Iver's seven-minute long version of "Come Talk to Me" was released on 30 March 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title='Come Talk To Me' and 'Flume' released today on iTunes |url=http://www.petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/03/30/%27Come_Talk_To_Me%27_and_%27Flume%27_released_today_on_iTunes |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=30 March 2010 |accessdate=18 April 2010}}</ref>


On 17 April 2010 "The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us" as well as "Flume" / "Come Talk to Me" were also released on [[7" vinyl]] to independent record stores.<ref>{{cite web |title=2 'Scratch' 7-inch singles for Record Store Day |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/03/10/2_%27Scratch%27_7_inch_singles_for_Record_Store_Day |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=10 March 2010 |accessdate=13 March 2010}}</ref>
On 17 April 2010 "The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us" as well as "Flume" / "Come Talk to Me" were also released on [[7" vinyl]] to independent record stores.<ref>{{cite web |title=2 'Scratch' 7-inch singles for Record Store Day |url=http://petergabriel.com/news/archive/2010/03/10/2_%27Scratch%27_7_inch_singles_for_Record_Store_Day |publisher=Petergabriel.com |date=10 March 2010 |accessdate=13 March 2010}}</ref>
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| rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Mojo">{{cite journal |last=Snow |first=Mat |title=Fair trade – review of Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back |journal=Mojo |issue=196 |date=March 2010|page=88}}</ref>
| rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Mojo">{{cite journal |last=Snow |first=Mat |title=Fair trade – review of Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back |journal=Mojo |issue=196 |date=March 2010|page=88}}</ref>
| rev8 = [[MusicOMH]]
| rev8 = [[MusicOMH]]
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Ben |last=Hogwood |title=Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back |url=http://www.musicomh.com/albums/peter-gabriel_0210.htm |publisher=MusicOMH |date= |accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref>
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|first=Ben |last=Hogwood |title=Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back |url=http://www.musicomh.com/albums/peter-gabriel_0210.htm |publisher=MusicOMH |date= |accessdate=19 February 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218082445/http://www.musicomh.com/albums/peter-gabriel_0210.htm |archivedate=18 February 2010 |df= }}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Observer]]''
| rev9 = ''[[The Observer]]''
| rev9Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Neil |last=Spencer |title=Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back (Virgin) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/24/peter-gabriel-scratch-my-back |publisher=''The Observer'' |date=24 January 2010 |accessdate=27 January 2010}}</ref>
| rev9Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Neil |last=Spencer |title=Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back (Virgin) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/24/peter-gabriel-scratch-my-back |publisher=''The Observer'' |date=24 January 2010 |accessdate=27 January 2010}}</ref>
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| 15 March 2010<ref>[http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/musica/resenha/resenha.asp?nitem=15008688&sid=0117123451222446356957518&k5=178D19DE&uid= Release date for Scratch My Back]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} per Brazilian retailer [[Livraria Cultura]]. Retrieved 6 February 2010.</ref>
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Scratch My Back is the eighth studio album (and fifteenth album overall) by English musician Peter Gabriel, his first in eight years. It was released in February 2010. The album, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during 2009, consists of cover versions of twelve songs by various artists, using only orchestra and voice.[4] It is produced by Gabriel himself with Bob Ezrin.[5]

The album generally received favourable reviews by music journalists and performed well on the album charts around the world, peaking at No. 1 in Belgium, No. 2 in Germany and Canada, and No. 3 in the Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland.[6][7][8][9][10][11] It also reached the top 5 in France and Sweden.[12][13] In Gabriel's native United Kingdom it peaked at No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart on 21 February 2010, the week following its release.[14] In the United States it peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard 200, No. 2 on the Independent Albums chart and No. 3 on the Rock Albums chart on 12 March 2010.[15]

Scratch My Back was initially released on compact disc and as music download; a vinyl album edition was subsequently released in late March 2010.[16]

Background

The idea behind the Scratch My Back project is a song exchange where each artist would cover one of Gabriel's songs in return for his covering one of theirs; the other artists' renditions of Gabriel's songs were to appear on an album entitled I'll Scratch Yours.[17] Initially planned to be released simultaneously with Scratch My Back in 2010, several artists were late in delivering their songs or ultimately declined to participate, necessitating changes to the companion album's concept. With several new artists aboard, the slightly retitled And I'll Scratch Yours was released in September 2013.

According to Gabriel, although he and arranger John Metcalfe had talked about Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich as inspiration, it was the work that Metcalfe did on "Heroes" that "gave us the confidence to be bold in the way in which we were going to approach the record."[18] "Heroes" became the opening track because "without any of the drive of guitar and drums...it builds an enormous tension that bursts open."[18]

If you’re going to reinterpret something, then really do something. Nail your colours to the mast and say, ‘This is different, and it isn’t everybody's cup of tea.

— Peter Gabriel, on Scratch My Back.[19]

Stephin Merritt, who wrote "The Book of Love", commented on Gabriel's cover of his song:

At first I thought, "How hilarious, he's got a completely different take on the song." But after a few listens I find it quite sweet. My version of the song focuses on the humour, and his focuses on the pathos. Of course, if I could sing like him I wouldn’t have to be a humourist.[19]

Gabriel's cover of "The Book of Love" appeared earlier in the 2004 film Shall We Dance?, on the series Scrubs in the season 8 finale episode entitled "My Finale," and the season 19 episode of "South Park" entitled "Tweek x Craig." "My Body is a Cage" appeared in the episode "Out of the Chute" from the seventh season of the American medical drama House, the teaser trailer to John Carter, and in the promo for the TV show Almost Human. His cover of "Heroes" appeared in the feature film Lone Survivor, and also on several TV shows, including the end credits for the fourth-season finale of Big Love, and at the end of the episode "Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly" of Stranger Things.

Cover art

The cover artwork is a micrograph of two red blood cells folding over each other.[20] It was shot by Steve Gschmeissner and was included in the cover by Marc Bessant.[21] Not coincidentally, the name of Gabriel's supporting tour for the album is "The New Blood Tour". The concept for the album's graphic design concept is credited to Marc Bessant and Peter Gabriel.

Track listing

Special Edition bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
1."The Book of Love" (Remix)MerrittThe Magnetic Fields3:40
2."My Body Is a Cage" (Oxford London Temple version)Burler, Chassagne, Parry, Kingsbury, Butler, Gara, NeufeldArcade Fire6:03
3."Waterloo Sunset" (Oxford London Temple version)Ray DaviesThe Kinks3:49
4.""Heroes"" (Wildebeest mix)Bowie, EnoDavid Bowie4:06

Singles

Gabriel originally intended to release Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours simultaneously.[19] However, as completion of the latter dragged out, it was instead decided to release a series of double A-sided singles with one song from each album every new full moon during 2010 on iTunes.[22] The first, "The Book of Love" – Gabriel's cover of a Magnetic Fields song, together with "Not One of Us" – Stephin Merritt's (The Magnetic Fields' frontman) cover of a Peter Gabriel song, was released on 30 January 2010.[23] Gabriel's version of "The Boy in the Bubble" coupled with Paul Simon's version of "Biko" was the second, released on 28 February 2010.[24] The third in the series, Gabriel's take on "Flume" paired with Bon Iver's seven-minute long version of "Come Talk to Me" was released on 30 March 2010.[25]

On 17 April 2010 "The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us" as well as "Flume" / "Come Talk to Me" were also released on 7" vinyl to independent record stores.[26]

Personnel

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic67/100[27]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[28]
BBC(favourable)[29]
The Daily Telegraph[30]
Drowned in Sound[31]
Entertainment WeeklyB[32]
The Guardian[33]
Mojo[34]
MusicOMH[35]
The Observer[36]
Pitchfork Media(4.5/10)[37]
Robert Christgau(choice cut)[38]
Rolling Stone[39]
Slant Magazine[40]
The Times[41]
Uncut[42]

Scratch My Back received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 67 based on 21 reviews.[27]

Scratch My Back was album of the month in the March 2010 issue of Mojo. Reviewer Mat Snow writes: "He [Gabriel] and his top-of-the-range collaborators (...) have created an album of great insight into the untapped potential of familiar songs, a profound re-imagining made manifest in an orchestral soundworld as rich and thrilling as ever recorded at Air (...)". He gave special mention to the reinterpretations of David Bowie's "Heroes" ("the songs underlying despair rises to the top"), Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble" ("the song it might have been had not the writer been so determined in 1986 to bring the joys of South African township jive to the Western pop charts") and Talking Heads' "Listening Wind" ("Gabriel shines a soft light into the song's inner desolation"). On the downside Snow describes the version of Lou Reed's "The Power of the Heart" as "a misstep" and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" as "superfluous". He concludes the review on a positive note by saying: "An album to make you happy feeling sad, Scratch My Back gets better with each play; it might just turn out to be the best surprise birthday present of the year."[34]

In Metro, Arwa Haider awarded the album 3 stars out of 5 and commented: "Its most impressive quality is sensitivity; these are elegant orchestral arrangements … It’s sporadically successful; Gabriel saps the life from Paul Simon’s The Boy in the Bubble and somehow over-eggs Arcade Fire’s My Body Is a Cage" and concluded "this is exceptionally classy karaoke."[43]

In The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote: "Covers albums don’t get any more idiosyncratic or high concept than Scratch My Back."[19]

Pitchfork Media reviewer Mark Richardson was less enthusiastic: "Every song on Scratch My Back, regardless of its original tone or meaning, is flattened out and turned into this one melodramatic and depressing thing (...)"; although the album "sounds earnest [and] professional", it consists of "ponderous, dull, and ultimately pointless versions of songs that sound much better elsewhere."[37]

Charts and certifications

Release history

Region Date Record label
Australia 12 February 2010[58][59] Real World Records/Virgin Records
Germany
United Kingdom 15 February 2010[4][60]
Mainland Europe
Canada 16 February 2010[60] Universal Music
United States 2 March 2010[60] Real World Records
Brazil 15 March 2010[61] EMI

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